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Exactly 43 years ago Elemér Albert Hofmann (better known as Elmyr de Hory), a man who had been hunted by Interpol for many years, committed suicide on the island of Ibiza.

In August 1968 the Spanish government imprisoned a man on the island of Ibiza for creating a long series of sketches and paintings-beautiful, intensely lyrical works that Art Experts had universally proclaimed as masterpieces.

Pablo Picasso Style
Ровно 43 года назад на острове Ибица покончил с собой Элемер Альберт Хофман (более известный как Эльмир де Хори), человек, за которым многие годы охотился Интерпол.

В августе 1968 года испанское правительство на острове Ивиса бросило за решётку человека за создание большого цикла набросков и картин — прекрасных, невероятно лирических произведений, которые "Арт Экспертс" признал шедеврами.

The imprisonment of this Maker of Masterpieces did not represent censorship in the ordinary erotic or religious sense. Nobody even accused the artist of Political Incorrectness. He got jugged for a technical matter-namely, that he had signed the wrong name to his works ... or several wrong names, in fact. Names like Picasso and Van Gogh and Modigliani and Matisse, for instance.
He later collaborated (with Orson Welles, no less) on a ftlm - F For Fake.

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